On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 10:07:02AM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
On Sat, 13 Aug 2022 17:38:49 -0400 Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled iio: core: Fix IIO_ALIGN and rename as it was not sufficiently large to the 5.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: iio-core-fix-iio_align-and-rename-as-it-was-not-suff.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.Hi Shasha, I didn't flag this lot for stable, partly because I was considering letting them sit in mainline for a little while to shake out any unexpected problems. I can't think of a reason they would cause trouble beyond it's a lot of subtle changes to alignment of data in drivers and maybe we'll throw up a latent bug or two - most likely because of the reduced alignment requirements on some architectures. We've had no bug reports yet and they've been in next a while so I'm moderately happy with these going into stable. Note these are fixes for a somewhat theoretical problem where only known problem platforms may not intersect with the buggy IIO drivers. So in conclusion, I'm a little nervous, but these should be fine to go into stable. I was probably being overly cautious in not marking them for stable in the first place.
Worst case we'll revert them back out. It's going through all the testing infra we have, so if we see something fishy we'll pull it out sooner. -- Thanks, Sasha
